Movies like Tenure

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Tenure (2008)
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Tenure (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Despite his outstanding intellect, associate professor Charlie Thurber is a chronic underachiever and has never received university tenure. Aided by his nutty best friend, Charlie launches a final effort to make the grade at Gray College. But a beautiful new teacher whose ascending star threatens to eclipse him shakes up Charlie's plans.
Style: humorous, captivating, feel good, entertaining, realistic, semi serious, independent film, hilarious
Plot: college, teachers and students, workplace intrigue, workplace, battle of the sexes, disorder, buddies, rivalry, teenager, business, teacher, college life, academician, fake dating, friends, love and romance, profanity, sexual content, campus, social relations, dishonesty, unfulfillment, workplace situations, unsupportive coworkers, power relations ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, yale university, new england

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and independent film films with plots about friends, love and romance, youth, college, profanity, power relations and drugs/alcohol mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Tenure: The English Teacher (2013), Cupid's Arrow (2010), Staten Island Summer (2015), Everybody's Doing It (2002), Highland Park (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The English Teacher (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Teacher Linda Sinclair (Julianne Moore) balances her staid home life with an incredible passion for her subject, but her routine is forever altered when a former star pupil and his unsupportive father reenter her life. Go-to television director ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, suspense, sentimental, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: teacher student sex, older woman younger man relationship, teacher student relationship, teacher, high school, high school teacher, power relations, failed attempt, social relations, workplace, writer's life, small town life ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: greece, pennsylvania, usa
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Cupid's Arrow (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An innocent college couple unknowingly become involved in their Professor's illicit research into the manipulation of love and his recreation of the elusive "Cupid's Arrow".
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, light, independent film
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: love, couples, college, experimenting, teachers and students, looking for love, power relations, disorder, fall in love, mad scientist, inventions and discoveries, science ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Staten Island Summer (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Pals Danny and Frank spend the summer after high school working as lifeguards while figuring out their future.
Style: funny, humorous, light, romantic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lifeguard, summer, teenager, friendship, coming of age, college, workplace situations, workplace, love and romance, party, beach, girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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22%
Everybody's Doing It (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Angela and Travis consider having sex for the first time just as their high school starts up an abstinence education program. Making matters worse, a "good girl" collects abstinence pledges from students and blows the whistle on Angela and ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage love, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, lifestyle, love and romance, battle of the sexes, youth, buddies, couples, peer pressure, school, sexual relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Highland Park (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A high school faculty lotto pool places its fate in the lucky numbers they've played for ten years after hearing budget cuts have eliminated all their jobs.
Style: realistic, humorous, captivating, light, sentimental ...
Plot: lottery, dedicated educator, high school, society, teachers and students, life turned upside down, social relations, disorder, hopes, idealism, gambling, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, detroit
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Demoted (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: What go around comes around for a pair of prank-playing tire salesmen (Astin and Vartan) who find themselves placed in secretarial jobs by their put-upon boss (Cross)
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous, captivating
Plot: prank, workplace, silly humor, partner, rebelliousness, obnoxious boss, rivalry, boss and employee, buddies, rebellion, workplace intrigue, workplace situations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Chalk (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Life in the trenches of that most honorable and frustrating profession...teaching. It's the start of a memorable new year at Harrison High. The self-conscious Mr. Stroope is convinced that his time has come - this year he will be furnished with ...
Style: mockumentary, humorous, semi documentary, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: teacher, high school, teachers and students, ambition, power relations, youth, hardcase students, lifestyle, education, rivalry, teaching, college ...
Time: year 2006
Place: usa, texas
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HairBrained (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A 14 year old genius gets rejected by Harvard and ends up at a much lower ranked school where he makes friends with a mature student.
Style: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, youth, coming of age, odd couple, friends, college life, prodigy, disorder, fish out of water, silly humor, misfit, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
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20%
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Price Check (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Pete is a good guy who used to be cool. Once living his dream in the music industry, he now toils away in the pricing department of a failing supermarket chain to provide for his loving wife and young son. When Pete’s new boss, Susan, takes over ...
Style: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, family life, couples, boss and employee, career woman, workplace romance, ambition, workplace, office work, business, gambling, extramarital affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Pool Party (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: It's your standard guy-fails-bar-exam-loses-girlfriend-works-for-a-lunatic-and-is-stalked-by-a-monkey-clown story ...with a twist.
Style: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, sexy ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: boss and employee, youth, friends, couples, farce, sexual relations, workplace, lifestyle, silly humor, rivalry, girl, erotica ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Sorority Wars (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Katie (Lucy Hale) and Sara (Phoebe Strole) have been friends since childhood. They enter college together, where Katie is a prized legacy candidate for the Delta sorority, which was co-founded decades ago by her mother, Lutie (Courtney Thorne-Smith) ...
Style: semi serious, teen, uplifting, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: sorority, college, mother daughter conflict, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, high school, teenager, youth, parents and children, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, college life, girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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19%
Bro, What Happened? (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Phil and his misfit friends score big when they are invited to the party of the century at Bob's house. Known for throwing the craziest drug, sex and booze filled parties, this was sure to be a night to remember. The only problem is that they ...
Style: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: disorder, memory loss, buddies, nothing goes right, party, flashback sequence, high school, college, stoner, nudity, friends, looking for sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Confessions of a Womanizer (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Ritchie is the epitome of everything wrong with modern man: a pompous, foul-mouthed idiot, driven only to get the latest girl of the week Something changes after his first real relationship that includes Ritchie's two favorite things: frequent ...
Style: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: womanizer, friendship, couples, prostitute, sexual relations, fall in love, society, disorder, best friend, profanity, love and romance, looking for sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Chicken Girls: The Movie (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story: With a new principal in town and the Spring Fling in jeopardy, Rhyme and the Chicken Girls must band together to save the dance.
Style: light, entertaining, contemplative, captivating, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, teenager, escapades, youth, friends, dishonesty, dancing, society, parents and children, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love and romance, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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With Honors (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Convinced he'll graduate with honors because of his thesis paper, a stuffy Harvard student finds his paper being held hostage by a homeless man, who might be the guy to school the young man in life.
Style: feel good, touching, sentimental, inspirational, road movie ...
Audience: kids
Plot: college, homeless, friendship, youth, college student, father son relationship, law school, justice, happy ending, graduation, self discovery, college life ...
Time: 90s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: massachusetts, usa, boston, harvard university
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18%
Trainwreck: My Life as an Idiot (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A dramatic comedy about a self-induced attention-deficit disordered, learning disabled, Tourette's syndrome suffering, balance impaired, ex-alcoholic young man from the Upper East Side of Manhattan and the gold-digging girl who inspires him to ...
Style: tragicomedy, semi serious, humorous, realistic, funny ...
Plot: alcoholic, dyslexia, lifestyle, social misfits, misfit, goofy hero, love and romance, disorder, twentysomething life, stoner, control, dark humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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Stay Cool (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The film centers on a successful author who is forced to confront an unrequited high school crush when he returns home to deliver a commencement address to graduating seniors. Shasta O'Neil, a sexy high school senior flirts with the visiting ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: high school, adolescence vs adulthood, social relations, homecoming, high school life, hometown, disorder, prom, friends, teenage life, artists and showbiz, writers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Last Day of Summer (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: This unpredictable story follows an agitated fast-food employee, Joe, who's reached his breaking point from being harassed and tormented by his boss...
Style: humorous, contemplative, realistic, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot: kidnapping, obnoxious boss, vengeful fired employee, social misfits, mentally unstable, restaurant, friends, misfit, friendship, introspection, disorder, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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Teachers (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
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Story: Teachers is a British television comedy-drama series, created by Tim Loane and originally shown on Channel 4. The series follows a group of secondary school teachers in their daily lives. While the first series centers heavily around probationary ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, sitcom, soap opera ...
Plot: high school, high school life, infidelity, workplace situations, teachers and students, workplace intrigue, lifestyle, power relations, thirtysomething life, couples, unsupportive coworkers, workplace ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Believe Me (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Desperate, broke, and out of ideas, four college seniors start a fake charity to embezzle money for tuition.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot: college, campaign, cons and scams, charity, buddies, christian, dishonesty, youth, student life, friends, fall in love, fraud ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, austin texas
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Straight A's (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Pressured by his deceased mother's ghost to return home to the family he abandoned, a former addict grabs a bag of pills and a sack of marijuana and hits the road to Shreveport.
Style: sentimental, semi serious, humorous, funny, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, introspection, love triangle, sibling relationship, love and romance, unfulfilled love, homecoming, husband wife relationship, uncle nephew relationship, brother brother relationship, dead mother, soul searching ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Calvin Marshall (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A college student is determined to become a Major League Baseball star, but finds his true calling instead.
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: baseball, coming of age, college, ambition, follow your dream, self discovery, underdog, youth, athlete's life, hopes, love and romance, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Funeral Kings (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: It's always a good day for a funeral at St. Mark's Middle School. Andy and Charlie, two altar servers, don't just get to miss class anytime a parishioner kicks the bucket, they cut out early and play hooky as soon as the service is ...
Style: humorous, realistic, captivating, psychological, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, youth, group of friends, altar boy, profanity, friendship, best friend, teenage boy, sexual content, teenage life, friends, buddies ...
Time: near future, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Who is Don Ready? Salesman? Lover? Song Stylist? Semi-professional dolphin trainer? Ready is all of the above - except for a dolphin trainer. When he’s asked to help save an ailing local car dealership from bankruptcy, Ready and his ragtag crew ...
Style: humorous, stylized, not serious, feel good, witty ...
Audience: teens
Plot: salesman, workplace, dumb, business, hotshot hero, stupidity, blind ambition, disorder, rise to the top, boss and employee, rivalry, ambition ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: california, usa
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Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The continuing adventures of the barbers at Calvin's Barbershop. Gina, a stylist at the beauty shop next door, is now trying to cut in on his buisness. Calvin is again struggling to keep his father's shop and traditions alive--this time ...
Style: funny, humorous, feel good, hilarious, black comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: beauty salon, fighting the system, urban, black, barbershop, friendship, hip hop, family business, workplace romance, workplace, friends, workplace situations ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: chicago, indiana, illinois, usa
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Adam and Eve (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Easy-going, gentle college-boy Adam Baker enjoys frat-life, however disgusting the frat-house gets because of his sloppy house-mates Freddie, Ferguson and Munch. Then Adam meets Eve, starts falling in love, but gets jealous of frat-brother Billy, ...
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, college life, love and romance, fall in love, wooing, student life, couples, youth, erotica, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, virgin, looking for sex ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 6.2
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Orange County (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Shaun Brumder is a local surfer kid from Orange County who dreams of going to Stanford to become a writer and to get away from his disfunctional family household. Except Shaun runs into one complication after another starting when his application is ...
Style: funny, feel good, humorous, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, high school, dysfunctional family, coming of age, family relations, drug, youth, horniness, sex with a minor, cheerleader, teenage life, parents and children ...
Place: california, southern california, usa, yale university, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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The Pretty One (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When her idolized twin sister Audrey dies in a car accident, Laurel decides to take her place. But, as she eases into the life she has always wanted, she must decide between continuing the lie or revealing herself.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: twins, mistaken identity, hidden identity, fall in love, self discovery, dishonesty, disorder, love and romance, charm, teenager, feminist, happiness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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Hellcats (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Pre-law student Marti Perkins' world is flipped upside down when she loses her scholarship, and realizes the only way she can stay in school is by reigniting her dormant teen gymnastic skills to win a place on Lancer University's legendary ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, entertaining, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: college, cheerleading, student life, cheerleader, campus, friends, team, social relations, love and romance, youth, lifestyle, teenage life ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: southern usa, usa, memphis
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 4.7
 322
Car Babes (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A coming of age story about the quirky lives of car salesman.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating
Plot: adolescence vs adulthood, college, workplace situations, family business, youth, save the day, family relations, friends, parents and children, workplace, sexual content, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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